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Techniques for CollectorsReport on: Second annual Southeastern Micro Mineral Symposium

4th Aug 2015 01:16 UTCHenry Barwood

The second meeting of the Southeastern Micro Mineral Group began on Thursday afternoon, July 30, 2015. The meeting was held In the Math and Science Complex on the Troy University campus. Early arrivals began setting up scopes around noon, and by late afternoon examination of minerals, discussions, and sorting through the give-away table materials was in full swing! The group decided to have dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. We arrived about the time a huge thunderstorm did, and Thursday also was the night they had a Mariachi band! The music was punctuated by frequent thunderclaps during the meal. About half the group returned to the campus to continue with the meeting for several more hours. We had an abundance of give-away material including some quite rare species!

Friday morning all the attendees had arrived and we set up 12 microscopes. Mid-morning, Bob Rothenberg presented a talk on the minerals of the DeMix-Varennes Quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Varennes & St-Amable, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada. As always, it was a very informative presentation and we learned a lot about this fascinating quarry. In the afternoon, Mike Howard gave a talk about the Rocks and Minerals of Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Mike is the recognized expert on this locality and his talk was excellent. Mike also announced that he has taken over production of Art Smith’s final manuscript on the mineralogy of Magnet Cove and it will be published soon as a downloadable PDF from his Rockhounding Arkansas web site. We had a group dinner at a local Chinese buffet. After dinner, Henry Barwood gave a short talk about how to build photo stands for doing digital imaging and stacking. As with all the talks there was a lot of feedback from the audience.

Saturday morning, Bob Rothenberg gave a second talk on Microminerals of Stoutameyer Branch, Augusta Co., Virginia. This fascinating locality has 49 species described so far and several very rare species have turned up. Unfortunately the computer in the room died, and Henry Barwood had to provide a computer and digital projector for him to use. In spite of this minor difficulty Bob gave an excellent presentation. For lunch, we were off to a local barbeque place. After lunch, Henry Barwood presented an update on the minerals of the Arkansas syenites. By late afternoon we were all pretty much exhausted and began packing up.

Overall, it was a good meeting and barring unforeseen circumstances, we will have the Third Annual meeting next year.

4th Aug 2015 04:22 UTCSteven Kuitems Expert

Thanks for sharing Henry,

Were any of the talks recorded or video taken?

Steve.

4th Aug 2015 13:20 UTCHenry Barwood

Hi Steve,

No. This was a do-it-yourself meeting. I arranged the room and everything else was from the participants. No cost except travel, lodging and food. Digital projector and computer, but no AV recording.

4th Aug 2015 17:06 UTCD. Peck

Sounds great, Henry. Wish I could have been there.

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